Sarah Allen — How OpenLazlo Became Open

Sarah Allen writes about How OpenLazlo Became Open.


InfoWorld has this to say
about OpenLaszlo:

[tease]

Some products that were once exclusively commercial got religion, or had it thrust upon them, and re-emerged as open source.

OpenLaszlo, a multi-platform rich Web application solution, may be the best closed-to-open success story. Laszlo Systems’ open source conversion unquestionably put the company in the right place at the right time, adding orders of magnitude to its installed base and even setting the stage for Adobe’s incremental opening of its crown jewel Flash and Flex technologies.